Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

12.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Make friends before you need them

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

39.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.